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By Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World

Comedian Chris Rock: argues that voters looking for a truly white presidential candidate need look no further than Barack Obama.

The politicization by the Republican Party of the tragic attack on the US consulate in Benghazi has been a security disaster for the United States. A document dump by Congressman Darrell Issa outed the identities of Libyans working with the US. Now, it has come out that the annex of the Benghazi consulate was a […]

Scientists in South Korea have taught Koshik the elephant what sounds like a few words of Korean.

Chris Woods writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Analysis: How Washington Post strips casualties from covert drone data The Washington Post: is it telling the whole story? Alongside the Washington Post’s latest blockbuster reports on the Obama administration’s drone kill list is a new graphic, depicting US covert strikes since 2002. Based on studies […]

The Syrian opposition appears split on American intervention to shape its leadership. The Syrian revolution is a grassroots affair, with hundreds of small groups on the ground, some of them neighborhood associations, others bigger organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood. The umbrella group for the fighters on the ground inside the country is the Free […]

Laughing camel being tickled.

Hurricane Sandy knocked out electricity to New York University’s Langone Hospital, which had to evacuate its patients. Bellevue Hospital also had to be cleared and the patients sent elsewhere. This story is a horrible one, and one’s heart goes out to the patients, already ill, who lost electricity under these frightening circumstances and had to […]